Re: [Nolug] test

Generally, regex's are more picky than that. A isn't going to match
a, plus all those characters before and after the regex have to be
matched wtih a wildcard. It really depends on what you're trying to
do that determines the right approach.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Petri Laihonen<pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
> Tried to send again, but for some reason this post does not appear in the
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> Therefore, since my reply to "test" appeared, perhaps this one does too.
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> Orig Subject: Regex help needed
>
> Do we have any regex geniuses on the wire?
>
> I've heard regular expressions are powerful thing.......  I agree ....they
> are very powerful driving you nuts trying to figure them out.....
>
> I'm trying to match 2 strings together....  (Will use in a PHP environment)
> String 1:  "ABC%A706"   (Where % is a wildcard, thus should match to any
> character)
> String 2:  "model-abc-a706/ software version 0.3 /sumptin else"
> String 3:  "model-abc-h706/ software version 0.3 /sumptin else"
>
>
> With the above strings, 1 and 2 would be match, but 1 and 3 are not.
>
> In other words, anything before, on the % sign, and after the string 1
> is OK. As long as portions "abc" and "a706" are found from the longer
> string with only one character, ....any character in between them.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Petri
>
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> Joey Kelly wrote:
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